Coin-holder.



No. 734,806. PATENTED JULY 28, 190.3.

A. G.-BOWEN. 00m HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 26, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

Patented July 28, 1 903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ADNA GUERNSEY BOWEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COIN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 734,806, dated July 28, 1903. Application filed December 26, 1902. Serial No. 136,521. (No model.)

. To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that I ,ADNAGUERNSEY BOWEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New Yorkand State of New York, have invented a new and useful Coin Clip or Holder, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of V a coin clip or holder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same through the line 2 of Fig.1. Fig. 3 is aview showing a modification of the end.

As will be readily seen from the drawings, this clip or holder is intended to contain a. predetermined number of coins, holding the same by a torsional strain in the side and end or ends, and its construction is such that it can be used repeatedly, always adjusting itself to the varying thickness of the coins.

This clip may be made from any resilient material and in one piece, as shown in Fig. 1, or in several pieces, and the body portion may have openings, as shown, or otherwise, or may be without any openings in the sides save the central longitudinal slit or opening.

As the drawings fully disclose the invention, it is only necessary to state that the body of the clip is cylindrical in form, having an opening its entire length of about one hundred and fifty degrees in width, so that when a predetermined quantity of coins is introduced endwise of the coin and passed through it the cylindrical body will be caused to open or yield to the diameter of the coin and close sufficiently after the coins enter to prevent their falling out. At the same time to compensate for any diiferences in the thickness between new and old or worn coins the ends, asshown in the drawings, have a tongue or tongues which give sufficiently to allow the coins to pass into the body of the clip or holder, yet are sufliciently strong to compel the same to stand upright in mass. The end tongues may be one or more innumber. I haveshown three in Fig. 1, and in Fig. 31 have shown a modification ,of the three tongues in respect to the manner in which they are held together and made to cooperate. As shown in Fig. 2, these tongues normally incline inward to a sufficient degree and with sufficient force to take up any variation in the thickness of the coins interposed between the arms of one end and the arms of the other end of the clip or holder; nor is it material that such tongues be integral with the body portion, but the same or anyone of them may be made separate therefrom and attached thereto by suitable means, or they may be omitted from one end of the clip or holder, which instead may have a series of lips or lugs, as in other coin-holders.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- A coin clip or holder having a cylindrical body portion open at one side for its entire length for the admission of coin in mass, such opening being of about one hundred and fifty degrees in width, or slightly less than the diameter of the coin, and calculated to resume its normal shape when not obstructed; such cylindrical body portion having at one or both ends an inwardly-inclining tongue or tongues calculated to take up"-or compensate for the varying thickness of such coins when contained within said cylindrical body portion in a predetermined quantity; substantially as herein shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADNA GUERNSEY BOWEN.

Witnesses:

R. M. FARRI s, ELEANOR ABER. 

